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Italian painter
A.K.A.
Il Sansone, Antonio Aleotti d'Argenta, Antonio Aleotti Dall' Argenta, Antonio Aleotti dall' Argenta, Antonio dell'Argenta Aleotti
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Male
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Birth:
1450(Argenta, Italy)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Antonio Aleotti (d. 1527)was an Italian painter, first mentioned in records in 1494 and active in Ferrara. Born in Argenta, he is also known as Antonio dell'Argento.He painted frescoes in the Chiesa della Morte in Ferrara.
His altarpiece of the Virgin and child enthroned, with St Anthony the Abbot and the Archangel Michael was painted in 1510 for the Hospital of Saint Antonio in Cesena, and is now in the city's art gallery.
He died in Cesena in 1527.
Sources
- Bryan, Michael (1886).Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 17.CS1 maint: location (link)